Preview: RIKERS: WHAT’S NEXT? with Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers returns to Thirteen WNET on March 12, 2018 at 9 pm, with the “powerhouse of a documentary” that has been at the center of debate in New York since the film premiered in November 2016. Come face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island as they describe the human toll exacted at this notorious jail. Stay tuned as Bill Moyers leads a follow up discussion about what it will take to close Rikers, as the Mayor, the Governor and the NYC Independent Commission on Criminal Justice Reform all now call for closing Rikers Island Jail. Moyers will speak with Johnny Perez, featured in the documentary and now Director of U.S. Prison Program for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, as well as Michael Jacobson, former NYC Corrections Commissioner and Probation Commissioner and currently director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, and Stanley Richards, Executive Vice President of the Fortune Society.

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